History of the Texts

Alice in Wonderland Through the Years
 Alice Depicted in Film

Alice in Wonderland has never been out of print since its original publication in 1865.  There have been over one hundred edition of the book throughout the years.  The story has been adapted in many different forms including film and theater productions.  The first of the film adaptations was produced in 1903.  There has been at least one film version of the tale every decade and have continued to be made up through the present year.
  Still of the Mad Tea Party in the film adaptation directed by Cecil Hepworth in 1903.
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The Mad Tea Party in Walt Disney's 1951 adaptation
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Tim Burton's 2010 depiction of the Tea Party
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Alice in Translation

The Alice in Wonderland story has been translated into over 125 languages.  The first of these translations was done by Antonie Zimmerman in German in 1869.

A later edition of the German version of Alice in Wonderland
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Some of the languages in which the story has been translated into include:

French - Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles translated by Henri Bue (1869)
Swedish - Alice's Äfventyr i Sagolandet translated by Emily Nonnen (1870)
Japanese - Published in 1908
Esperanto - La Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando translated by Elfric Leofwine Kearney (1910)
Latin - Alicia in Terra Mirabili translated by Clive Harcourt Carruthers (1964)
Irish - Eachtraí Eilíse i dTír na nIontas translated by Nicholas Williams (2003)


 Alice in Wonderland the Sequel
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Through the Looking-Glass was published six years following Alice's Adventures Underground.  Lewis Carroll encountered another Alice in his travels throughout Europe and had a conversation with her about how she viewed herself in a mirror.  This event led to the creation of the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.

  The first edition cover of Through the Looking-Glass
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This sequel includes many of the original characters and introduces new ones as well.
 Like the original, the sequel also has many adaptations into other forms of entertainment such as film, television, stage performances, and music.
Through the Looking-Glass also became serialized into a series of not only novels, but graphic novels as well.  These were written by Frank Beddor.  Three have been published so far as of the present date.

You can take a further look at these on its website:
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